Thank you for everyone’s patience while we were migrating hosts . I know I said “a few hours” and it turned out to be over a day. Clearly I need to work on my Scotty estimates. During transport the team found a backlog of extremely low effort memes caught in the pattern buffer and we had to go through the copies one by one determining which were the evil versions.
You may notice some wonkiness/slowness the next 24hrs as we get re-federated with everyone. Basically every other Lemmy instance will bombard us with traffic for a while.
Our new host is designed for Lemmy in particular, meaning in the long run we should see increased stability, improved load times, and better scaling as we inevitably become the dominant Lemmy instance!
Seeing some of the wonky slowness just getting to communities for the first time. Really appreciate the heads-up/acknowledgment.
In the silver lining category, it’s been nice to see a few of the regulars here get set up on the fediverse sister platform Mastodon, especially on tenforward.social. There’re nice Trek folks there. Guinan is a gracious host and assiduous in her care to protect the instance from everything many of us we never wish to see or read.
Which brings me to the last point. Over at the ‘alternatives’ subreddit, there was a fair bit of discussion over the long weekend about illegal content and how instances can protect themselves from it federating to them. I hope that this migration hasn’t turned up too much stuff that the mods and sysadmins should never have to look at, and hope that the new home will help support better tools to filter that out.